Frontal Shot - Photography Residency will be happening in Melgaço between July 25 and August 3, 2025, alongside MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival. The purpose of this photography residency is to contribute for an archive about Melgaço, to provide Espaço Memória e Fronteira with works that reflect the region and to promote photography and the appearance of new photographers.
Three young photographers will direct, for tem days, a project about local themes, yet to be proposed.
Frontal Shot - Photography Residency’s main targets are senior students on their final year attending higher education courses in Photography or that have recently completed their education.
It addresses all those people willing to live through a unique experience, whose objective is to produce a photography project and to participate in the festival’s activities.
The organization committee will guarantee free room and board, from July 25 until August 4, to the twelve selected candidates and will provide logistic support for the teams to travel to photographic recording locations.
Participants will be selected through application analysis.
Frontal Shot is oriented by Pedro Sena Nunes, a director/tutor with a large professional and pedagogical experience. All work will be framed and supported by a production team formed by Rui Ramos, João Peixoto and João Gigante, assistant tutor. The general coordination is by Carlos Eduardo Viana.
Please register and apply for a grant for a photography residency led by Pedro Sena Nunes.
If selected, you’ll be able to enjoy 2.000€ individual grant for:
Director, cultural programmer and teacher in the fields of artistic creation, documentary and experimental film. Directed several films with the support of ICA / RTP - documentaries, fiction and advertising spots. Developed author photographic projects. Co-artistic director of Vo'Arte and co-founder of the Teatro Meridional Company, he is a consultant and coordinator of several national and international cultural projects. Integrated team member of European projects Fragile, Unlimited and European Video Dance Heritage (EVDH). Co-director of the International Festivals InShadow, InArte and InMotion in the areas of cinema, photography, dance and performance, and is a programmer at Olhares Frontais, a project that has been part of the Encontros de Viana Film Festival for 20 years, where he also coordinates the Histórias da Praça project. He collaborated in the design of the Filmes do Homem Festival, currently MDOC, where he is responsible for the Frontal Shot Residence. His artistic project focuses increasingly in a practice with a social dimension through the intersection of everyone with everyone, interpreters with multi-deficiency and professional artists. For the last 27 years he has been intensely dedicated to the pedagogical area, directing laboratories dedicated to experimentation and innovation, both documentary and fictional. Teaches in the areas of filmmaking, transdisciplinary narratives and the relationship between performance and technologies at ESTAL, IPA, SOU and EscreverEscrever. Teacher at the Documentary Film Masters’ degree from ESMAE (Porto) for 12 years and teaching coordinator at ETIC for 18 years, where he was creative director, and cooperated in the implementation of the new HND courses certified by the world's largest educational entity: Pearson. Orchestrator and director of several theatrical, choreographic and performative projects, he has been awarded numerous times for his cinematographic, photographic and transdisciplinary works in Portugal and abroad. Co-creator of the project Generation Soma, supported by the PARTIS Program - Social integration through artistic practices, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Lisbon (UL) in performing arts and moving image, an investigator at GECAPA in the experimental areas of intersection between body and image. He finished his last film "Fissura" and is preparing "RH - Revolução Humana".
